THE DARK PROPHECY AR ANSWERS SERIES
Lists of upcoming titles from school library publishers, which produce book series that are primarily nonfiction.Many lists of award-winning titles, including lists of awards given by the American Library Association.Magazines that review books for children and young people, including Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal.As we know from the annual What Kids Are Reading report, these are two of the most popular series of the past decade. Titles from popular authors and series, such as Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and Suzanne Collins, author of the Hunger Games series.In addition to users’ suggestions, we use these resources to identify books for Reading Practice Quizzes: We’ve been able to fulfill 20,636 of those requests so far, with additional quizzes currently in development. So far this year, we’ve received more than 67,000 requests covering 29,623 unique titles. We receive hundreds of thousands of requests each year, mostly from librarians and teachers. You’ll see a “Suggest Quizzes” link in the upper right of every page of AR Bookfinder, which makes it easy to tell us about a book that would make a great addition to the collection. Users can quickly search by title or author, or they can use the “Advanced Search” option to explore various topics and subtopics, or to limit their results to either fiction or nonfiction, or to either English or Spanish. If you’re not familiar with AR Bookfinder, this is a great tool for finding books that have AR quizzes available. We monitor requests made at AR Bookfinder, which allows us to hear directly from our customers. Not surprisingly, our biggest selection tool is the voice of teachers, librarians, parents, and the students themselves. Our selections include both fiction and nonfiction titles, and we work hard to include books on a variety of topics and at a range of reading levels, along with the newest, most popular titles. Selecting titles for Reading Practice QuizzesĮach year, we develop more than 6,000 new Reading Practice Quizzes to assess students’ comprehension of the books they’ve read. Along the way, we’ll also answer some of the most common questions we receive about AR quizzes from teachers and librarians. Have you ever wondered how we choose the books that receive Reading Practice Quizzes in AR-and what the quiz-writing process involves? In this blog, we’ll give you an insider’s view of the making of a Reading Practice Quiz. They also span decades of history, from classics such as The Secret Garden or Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to titles published this year, including the latest book in the Amelia Bedelia series and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Reading Practice Quizzes span Kindergarten to grade 12. More than 210,000 AR quizzes are available on a wide range of books, and districts can allow students to take AR quizzes from home. Every school day, hundreds of thousands of students assess their reading comprehension by taking a Reading Practice Quiz in Accelerated Reader.